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왜 인공신경망 기반 기계 번역 &lpar;NMT&rpar;을 사용합니까&quest;

We care about neural machine translation for several reasons.

1) Results show that NMT produces automatic translations that are significantly preferred by humans to other machine translation outputs. This has led several companies to switch NMT-based translation systems.

2) Similar methods (often called seq2seq) are also effective for many other NLP and language-related applications such as dialogue, image captioning, and summarization. A recent talk from HarvardNLP describing some of these recent advances is available here.

3) NMT has been used as a representative application of the recent success of deep learning-based artificial intelligence. For instance a recent NYT magazine cover story focused on Google’s NMT system.

어디에서 NMT에 대해 배울 수 있습니까&quest;

We recommend starting with the ACL’16 NMT tutorial produced by researchers at Stanford and NYU. The tutorial also includes a detailed bibliography describing work in the field.

NMT 모델을 학습시키려면 무엇이 필요합니까&quest;

You just need two files: a source file and a target file. Each with one sentence per line with words space separated. These files can come from standard free translation corpora such a WMT, or it can be any other sources you want to train from.

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What type of computer do I need to train with?

While in theory you can train on any machine; in practice for all but trivally small data sets you will need a GPU that supports CUDA if you want training to finish in a reasonable amount of time. For medium-size models you will need at least 4GB; for full-size state-of-the-art models 8-12GB is recommend.

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How can I replicate the full-scale NMT translation results?

We have posted a complete tutorial for training a German-to-English translation system on standard data.

Are there pretrained translation models that I can try?

There are several different pretrained models available on the pretrained models page for the Torch version.

Where can I get training data for translation from X-to-X?

Try the OPUS Project. An open-source collection of parallel corpora. After stripping XML tags, you should be able to use the raw files directly in OpenNMT.

I am interested in other seq2seq-like problems such as summarization, dialogue, tree-generation. Can OpenNMT work for these?

Yes. OpenNMT is a general-purpose attention-based seq2seq system. There is very little code that is translation specific, and so it should be effective for many of these applications.

For the case of summarization, OpenNMT has been shown to be more effective than neural systems like NAMAS, and will be supported going forward. See the models page for a pretrained summarization system on the Gigaword dataset.

I am interested in variants of seq2seq such as image-to-sequence generation. Can OpenNMT work for these?

Yes. As an example, we have implemented a relatively general-purpose im2text system, with a small amount of additional code. Feel free to use this as a model for extending OpenNMT.